CBHT-DT

CBHT-DT

City of license	Halifax, Nova Scotia
Branding	CBC Television
Slogan	Canada Lives Here
Channels	Digital: 39 (UHF) Virtual: 3.1 (PSIP)
Translators	see below
Affiliations	CBC
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
First air date	December 20, 1954
Call letters' meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Halifax Television
Sister station(s)	CBH-FM, CBHA-FM
Former callsigns	CBHT (1954-2011)
Former channel number(s)	3 (1954-2011)
Transmitter power	157.54 kW
Height	266.5 m
Transmitter coordinates	44°39′3″N 63°39′26″W
Website	CBC Nova Scotia

CBHT is the flagship station of CBC Television in the Atlantic Time Zone of Canada. CBHT broadcasts on terrestrial channel 39 at 157.54 kW and cable channel 11 in the Halifax metro area. The CBC network schedule, outside of live events, is carried one hour in advance of Toronto on CBHT.

CBHT started broadcasting on December 20, 1954, entered CBC's microwave network in 1958, and began colour programming in 1966. On September 26, 1972, CBHT signed on a semi-satellite for Sydney and Cape Breton Island, CBIT, when CHUM Limited purchased incumbent local station CJCB-TV. "CBIT TV" broadcasts on terrestrial channel 5 and local cable channel 3. CBIT had its own newscast until 1991, when it was cancelled and replaced with CBHT's First Edition. Since then, CBIT has been a full-time repeater of CBHT.

CBHT eventually covered all of Nova Scotia with rebroadcast transmitters. The tower in the Halifax area on Geiser’s Hill (called the CBC tower) is also used by CTV's CJCH-TV, Global's CIHF-TV, most local FM broadcast radio stations and other services. In 2000, its local newscast, "First Edition", was cancelled and replaced with Canada Now, anchored in Halifax by Norma Lee MacLeod. The latest version of the newscast for Nova Scotia is called CBC News: Nova Scotia at Five/Six, hosted by Tom Murphy and CBC News: Halifax at 5:30, hosted by Amy Smith, with meteorologist Peter Coade, who also does the weather forecast for CBC News at 6 for New Brunswick via satellite from CBC's studio in Halifax.

During the early 1980s, CBHT was known simply as "Maritimes CBC".

Programs produced at CBHT include Don Messer's Jubilee, Street Cents, Switchback, Land and Sea, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Mary Walsh: Open Book.

On-air staff

First Edition

• Frank Cameron
• Parker Barss Donham
• Harry Flemming
• Rob Gordon
• Linda Kelly
• Norma Lee MacLeod
• Jim Nunn
• Dan O'Connell
• Doug Saunders
• Paul Withers

CBC News: Nova Scotia at Five/Six and CBC News: Halifax at 5:30

• Elizabeth Chiu, reporter (formerly with CTV Atlantic)
• Peter Coade, meteorologist (formerly with CTV Atlantic)
• Brian DuBreil, special reporter
• Rob Gordon, reporter
• Kevin Harvey, reporter (formerly with CBNT)
• Mari Ito, reporter
• Phonse Jessome, reporter (formerly with CTV Atlantic)
• Chris Kayaniotes, reporter
• Linda Kelly, arts and events reporter (former)
• Darryl Kyte, reporter
• Norma Lee MacLeod, special reporter
• Dawn MacPhee, reporter (also of CBC Radio One locally)
• Bob Murphy, reporter (and Tom Murphy's identical twin)
• Tom Murphy, anchor (as of June 10, 2009)
• Blair Rhodes, special reporter
• Amy Smith, anchor (formerly with The Chronicle Herald)
• Paul Withers, special reporter (government)

Former staff

• Jim Nunn, anchor (retired June 9, 2009)
• Trevor Adams (now at CIHF-TV)

Transmitters

Station	City of licence	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Transmitter Coordinates
CBHT-1	Liverpool	12 (VHF)	1.952 kW	196.9 m	44°3′59″N 64°42′57″W
CBHT-2	Shelburne	7 (VHF)	37.8 kW	129.7 m	43°46′35″N 65°18′26″W
CBHT-3	Yarmouth	11 (VHF)	38.4 kW	190.1 m	43°55′55″N 66°6′8″W
CBHT-4	Sheet Harbour	11 (VHF)	17.8 kW	112.3 m	44°55′29″N 62°29′52″W
CBHT-5	New Glasgow	4 (VHF)	0.857 kW	143 m	45°32′0″N 62°38′11″W
CBHT-6	Middleton	8 (VHF)	42.4 kW	244.7 m	45°4′38″N 64°48′59″W
CBHT-7	Digby	52 (UHF)	0.7 kW	236.7 m	44°40′35″N 65°44′1″W
CBHT-8	Truro	55 (UHF)	1.2 kW	141.2 m	45°27′10″N 63°17′17″W
CBHT-9	Caledonia	2 (VHF)	0.609 kW	63.4 m	44°22′28″N 65°2′9″W
CBHT-10	Weymouth	24 (UHF)	0.1 kW	NA	44°25′36″N 66°0′58″W
CBHT-11	Mulgrave	12 (VHF)	258 kW	186.4 m	45°35′56″N 61°24′44″W
CBHT-12	Lochaber	33 (UHF)	0.1 kW	NA	45°23′30″N 62°3′54″W
CBHT-13	Goshen	2 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	45°23′30″N 61°57′1″W
CBHT-14	Aspen	5 (VHF)	0.442 kW	162.4 m	45°14′40″N 62°1′37″W
CBHT-15	Country Harbour	6 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	45°14′2″N 61°49′10″W
CBHT-16	Sherbrooke	4 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	45°9′28″N 61°57′35″W
CBHT-17	Sunnybrae	6 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	45°23′46″N 62°31′3″W
CBHT-18	Blue Mountain	5 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	45°29′5″N 62°26′23″W
CBHT-19	Garden of Eden	17 (UHF)	0.1 kW	NA	45°24′2″N 62°17′20″W
CBIT	Sydney	5 (VHF)	100 kW	142.5 m	46°5′44″N 60°8′48″W
CBIT-2	Chéticamp	2 (VHF)	7.35 kW	186.2 m	46°34′41″N 60°59′1″W
CBIT-3	Pleasant Bay	8 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	46°49′48″N 60°47′11″W
CBIT-4	Mabou	10 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	46°3′10″N 61°26′57″W
CBIT-5	East Margaree	11 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	46°22′56″N 61°4′3″W
CBIT-6	Northeast Margaree	13 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	46°19′5″N 60°57′57″W
CBIT-15	Ingonish	2 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	46°38′22″N 60°23′55″W
CBIT-16	Dingwall	12 (VHF)	0.137 kW	-129.1 m	46°54′43″N 60°30′16″W
CBIT-17	Bay St. Lawrence	13 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	46°58′35″N 60°27′29″W
CBIT-18	Whycocomagh	10 (VHF)	0.009 kW	NA	45°58′23″N 61°6′19″W
CBIT-19	Inverness	8 (VHF)	1.6 kW	210.3 m	46°6′8″N 61°17′21″W
CBIT-20	Middle River	9 (VHF)	0.01 kW	NA	46°8′16″N 60°53′32″W

Digital television

During the analogue shutdown and digital conversion on August 31, 2011, CBHT-DT will move to its post-transition channel number, 39.

With the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will list CBHT-DT's virtual channel number as 3.1.

External links

• CBC Nova Scotia
• Coverage Map
• CBC Halifax Digital
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CBHT History
• Canadian Communications Foundation - CBIT History
• CBC Halifax's Digital Transition
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBHT
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBIT
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CBHT
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for CBIT